Reel



Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Application filed August 20, 1924. Serial No. 733,211.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAKUZO MIZUNO, a subject of the Emperor of Japan,residing at Shimizu City, Sl'iizuoka Prefecture, Japan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in a Reel, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a reel wherein :tour rotary armswith rectangular section are fixed radially by a bolt inserted throughthe openings near the inner ends of said arms and at each outer ends ofthem, a stud to be wound with thread is engaged in any one of theopenings and the bolt carrying these members may rotate around a pinfixed to an upper end of a supporting prop which is mounted detachablyon a seat block fixed to the inner surface of the rectangular box and acover of this box may serve as a base board connected to the said box.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide an improvedreel for winding thread around four studs.

Another object of my invention is to provide an improved reel with allthe parts made detachable or collapsible so that it may be knocked downand put in a box, when it is not used or transported, in the mostconvenient and safest manner possible.

In the accompanying drawings;

Fig. l is an oblique view of a reel according to the present invention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the boX which takes in all the members of thereel when it is not used,

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of connecting part of rotary arms, and

Fig. 4c is a side view of the connecting bolt screwed with a nut.

In the drawings, 1 denotes two grooves of side walls of a rectangularbox 2 for guiding a cover plate 3 and this cover plate serves as a baseengaging through a guide groove 4; made across the bottom of the box,and at the middle part of the box a seat piece 5 is fixed to an innersurface of a side wall to support a prop 6 engaging detachably in a holebored on the upper surface of the said piece. And a pin 7 is projectedupward from the end of the prop 6.

Four arms 8 are piled radially each other at their inner end and when ahollow bolt 9 is inserted through openings 10 made at the piledportions, a pin-hole of the'lowest arm is engaged with a pin 11 mountedon the flange oi the bolt as shown in Fig. 3, and then the bolt and armsare fixed by a nut 12.

A stud 13 detachably engaged in one of the openings 14 arranged at apre-determined distance from the outer end 01 each or the arms serves asa support for the thread wound thereon. And then the hollow bolt withthe said members rotates upon the pin 7.

The arms may be prolonged properly by connecting other arms.

In this invention all parts are connected detachably and when thisdevice is out of use all members may be put snugly in the box as shownin 2.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of myinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claimis new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent of the United States, is

In a reel, a box having a groove in the bottom thereof, a cover platefor the box engageable in said groove, a base member arranged in thebox, a prop detachably engaged in said base member, a pin carried by theupper end of the prop, a hollow bolt detachably engaged with said pin,said bolt including a flange and a nut, four arms clamped by the flangeand nut, a pin carried by the flange and engaging one of the arms, saidarms having a plurality of openings having outer ends thereof and studsdetachably engaged in said openings, said prop, arms, bolt, and studsbeing adapted to be housed in the box when the reel is not in use.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature.

SAKUZO MIZUNO.

